Mustang makes cameo at murder trial

Jurors hearing the first-degree murder case against John Ogden got a close look at the car Ogden’s stepfather was driving when he was shot to death on March 18, 2005.

Broken apart by investigators, the black Ford Mustang was reassembled in King County Superior Court on Thursday as prosecutors continued to take technical testimony. Missing were the car’s front end, doors, wheels and power train.

Ogden is accused of conspiring with his mother, Velma Ogden-Whitehead, and accused triggerman Wilson Sayachack in his stepfather’s shooting. Ogden-Whitehead pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in June, admitting to paying $1,000 to Sayachack, then 16, to kill her husband. Find more on the case here.